AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 686

Topic || Analytics

Amazon QuickSight now supports Direct Query for Google BigQuery connector

Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports higher base capacity of 1024 Redshift Processing Units

Amazon Redshift now supports altering sort keys on tables in zero-ETL integration

AWS announces session reuse with Amazon Redshift Data API

Amazon RDS for MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available

AWS Glue now provides job queuing

AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports storage optimization of Apache Iceberg tables

Amazon EMR on EC2 improves cluster launch experience with intelligent subnet selection

Use Apache Spark on Amazon EMR Serverless directly from Amazon Sagemaker Studio

Amazon MSK enhances cross-cluster replication with support for identical topic names

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.15

Topic || Application Integration

Amazon EventBridge Pipes now supports customer managed KMS keys

AWS AppSync enhances API monitoring with new DEBUG and INFO logging levels

Topic || Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports cross-region inference

Bedrock Agents on Sonnet 3.5

Stability AI’s Top 3 Text-to-Image Models Now Available in Amazon Bedrock

Introducing sagemaker-core: A New Object-Oriented SDK for Amazon SageMaker

Announcing sticky session routing for Amazon SageMaker Inference

Amazon EKS support in Amazon SageMaker HyperPod to scale foundation model development

Container Insights now announces SageMaker HyperPod node health observability on EKS

Topic || Compute

Amazon EBS direct APIs now supports IPv6 in AWS PrivateLink

AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support for IPv6 inbound traffic to service endpoints

Amazon EC2 P5e instances are generally available via EC2 Capacity Blocks

Amazon ECS now supports AWS Graviton-based Spot compute with AWS Fargate

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect launches AWS CloudFormation support for agent status

Amazon Connect expands AWS CloudFormation support for agent hierarchies

Amazon Connect now provides a weekly view of agent schedules

Amazon Connect now offers intraday forecasts

Amazon Connect Contact Lens can now generate transcriptions in 10 new languages

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports new ways to automate agent performance evaluations

Amazon SES announces enhanced onboarding with adaptive setup wizard and Virtual Deliverability Manager

Topic || Database

Amazon DynamoDB announces support for Attribute-Based Access Control

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports enhanced management features

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server supports Cross-region Snapshot Copying

Amazon RDS for SQL Server Supports Minor Versions 2019 CU28, 2022 CU14

PostgreSQL 17 RC1 is now available in Amazon RDS Database preview environment

Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports minors 10.11.9, 10.6.19, 10.5.26

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports OEM and OLS options with Multitenant configuration

Topic || Developer Tools

AWS Fault Injection Service introduces additional safety control

Topic || End User Computing

Amazon WorkSpaces Pools now allows you to bring your Windows 10 or 11 licenses

Topic || Internet of Things

Secondary sensor support for AWS IoT SiteWise Edge through CloudRail

AWS IoT SiteWise Edge adds support for 100+ protocols through Litmus Edge

Topic || Management and Governance

CloudWatch Application Signals now supports request based Service Level Objectives

Topic || Media Services

AWS Elemental Media Services now support live AV1 encoding

Announcing AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere for live video encoding on your own hardware

AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds support for input thumbnail images

Amazon IVS Real-Time Streaming now supports RTMP ingest

Topic || Migration & Modernization

AWS Application Migration Service supports Trend Micro post-launch action

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

AWS Network Firewall now supports AWS PrivateLink

AWS Resource Access Manager now supports AWS PrivateLink

AWS Gateway Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeout

AWS Network Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeout

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS WAF Bot Control Managed Rule expands bot detection capabilities

Amazon Cognito user pools now offer email as a multi-factor authentication (MFA) option

AWS IAM Identity Center now supports language and visual mode preferences in the AWS access portal

Topic || Storage

Announcing Storage Browser for Amazon S3 for your web applications

Amazon S3 Access Grants introduce the ListCallerAccessGrants API

AWS Backup Audit Manager adds new control to audit resources inside logically air-gapped vault